Twitter's New Verification Process Could Bring You Closer to Getting Noticed By Your Fave Celeb

Everyone knows what that blue check mark over people's Twitter profiles means. It means you're ~verified~. Ooooooh. Aaaaaaah. It means a user is a person of public interest, like a famous actor, singer, author, or Internet personality.

The way people get verified is waaaaay mysterious, though. Twitter handles it themselves behind the scenes and users don't have any way to reach out to Twitter if they believe their profile should get the blue check mark treatment. Well, that is until now.

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Twitter just announced on their official blog that they're launching an application process, so you can you get your account verified and reap the benefits of the sought after blue badge. This is huge news even if you don't care that much about the checkmark itself, because celebs have a special notifications pane for people who tweet them from verified accounts, so if YOU have one, they'd be more likely to see your tweets.

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All you have to do to get your account verified is make sure all your profile's info is filled out and up-to-date, make sure your username reflects who you actually are, and then fill out this simple form.

But there IS a catch, as always.

Twitter isn't just handing out blue badges. Their requirements to qualify for verification are still the same. You have to be a person of public interest, which Twitter defines as typically being "public figures and organizations in music, TV, film, fashion, government, politics, religion, journalism, media, sports, business, and other key interest areas."

Which means, in most cases, if you weren't already verified, it's unlikely this application process will change your profile's status. Chances are, they simply opened up this application process so smaller actors and businesses that aren't on Twitter's radar could apply for verification.

But if you think your YouTube beauty guru or self-published WattPad author status means you deserve verification, you should def apply.